HUNT

2.RESCUED

(The night of murder)

It was about 2 in the morning when the main door opened, revealing a young man. He was probably in his mid 20s, dressed in dark outfits, with a mask and gloves. Another young man, nearly of the same age, seated in the sofa wound up whatever work he was doing in his laptop and went towards the entering one.

"Tae..", he called but Taehyung moved in as if in a daze. He headed straight to his room and locked the door.

The other boy locked the main door and went to the kitchen, where another man was making tea. He called,
"Hyung... Tae has returned... but.. he doesn't look good.."

"Don't worry Jimin-ah.. afterall he is not them.. you see this.. I will go get him.", the male said and left the kitchen. Jimin stood there not knowing what to do - he can't see his best friend in pain but at the same time he can't stop what they were doing.

The man knocked on the door but to no avail. But he waited, and as he expected the door unlocked in a moment. He needed just a glance to realise how much the younger was shook. The mask and gloves were thrown at a corner. His bloodied jacket was discarded and Taehyung looked so lost. He wordlessly pulled him into a hug, gently patting his back.

"It's ok Tae... It's ok...", he said so gently. But Taehyung was still stiff. After a few minutes, Taehyung mumbled,
"I.. I was in a trance hyung... I don't know what came upon me when I saw him... I... I just wanted to get over with him... but I'm not like them am I hyung? I'm not bad right... they.. I'm not like them "

Taehyung started having heavy breaths, so he stopped him, "Shh... you are not bad Tae.. you aren't like them.. He deserved it... you aren't bad... now calm down.."

A few more minutes of consoling and Taehyung was reasonably better. All along Jimin, who had finished making tea, stood in the hallway, remembering everything they went through. Grief filling in as he remembered their lost ones.

[Time skip]

Breakfast went by silently. None had an appetite but ate at least a bit. Taehyung was better and Jimin was relieved a bit. Winding up everything, the eldest sat Taehyung and Jimin and spoke,
"Tae... I know we talked about this already but... do you want to stop this?"

Taehyung answered immediately,
"What! No hyung! Never would I want that!! I.. It was just that when I saw all the blood, it... all I saw was her hyung.. but now I'm fine.. And we can't stop now hyung! Even if we can, we shouldn't!"

"The do you want to exchange our roles?", Jimin inquired.

"No Minnie.. I'm good.."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes hyung"

"Hmm.. ok then...", the man said and within seconds his soft expressions turned devilish as he continued, "Now.. what do we do next?"

Jimin said,
"Yao Chi is here, in Seoul, for a vacation. I have his cell phone hacked, we can locate him anytime. He is supposed to go back in 3 days."

"Well guess he isn't lucky to go back... what is our plan hyung?", Tae asked.

"He loves poison, doesn't he"

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(After Namjoon left Yoonhee's house, morning of the murder)

Hoseok was done with the forensic team and could leave till they did their work and gave him the postmortem report. But one thing that stuck to his mind was that the killer was so considerate, that they didn't even harm the security in the slightest. One slit in the throat or a stab to his heart would have made discarding the security so much easier. But they just ensured he was not an obstacle.